Re: The Fate of WEVD

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   Sorry List!!!! That was a private transmission. The new hotmail has been 
very confused.
      Trudi the G



>From: Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: The Fate of WEVD
>Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 21:15:21 -0400
>
>Trudele,
>
>Is that the one that has a poem with all the children's names?
>
>Lorele
>
>Trudi Goodman wrote:. I have a wonderful music
>
> > compilation tape,"Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen," which a woman Radio producer 
>put
> > together about 25 years ago...it has audio of some of the old, great 
>WEVD
> > commercials.
> >       Trudi the G
> >
> > >From: Sapoznik (at) aol(dot)com
> > >Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> > >To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> > >Subject: The Fate of WEVD
> > >Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 17:55:42 EDT
> > >
> > >Today's New York Times carries the story about the final fate of New 
>York
> > >station WEVD. Sam Norich, chairman of the board of the Forward 
>Association
> > >has announced that as of September 1, 2001 Disney/ESPN will assume all
> > >programming of WEVD, making it the flagship station of their national
> > >sports
> > >network.  Ownership  will, for now,  remain with the Forward 
>Association.
> > >Disney reserves the right to purchase the station in the future, until
> > >which
> > >time the station will continue using its historic call letters named 
>for
> > >one
> > >time American Socialist leader Eugene Victor Debs.
> > >Part of the change will see longtime WEVD employees replaced by new 
>ESPN
> > >staff. The Forward Hour, the venerable WEVD Yiddish offering and the 
>last
> > >of
> > >the station's historic Jewish shows, will be shopped to another local 
>AM
> > >station and will continue broadcasting.
> > >The station which once contested its license suspension by the FCC 
>noting
> > >that "WEVD must survive as the one place where Capitalism cannot lay 
>its
> > >brutal paw..." and would not be reporting "...the results of polo 
>matches"
> > >will now be the flagship of the nation's major sports network run by a 
>huge
> > >conglomerate corporation.
> > >How the irony  gods must be laughing.....
> > >
> > >Henry Sapoznik
> > >Co-Producer "Yiddish Radio Project" National Public Radio/All Things
> > >Considered
> > >Spring, 2002
> > >Author  "Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World to Our World" (Schirmer
> > >Books)
> > >Founder/Director "KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program"
> > >KlezKamp 17: December 23-28, 2001 www.livingtradtions.org
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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